Video Digest: April 4, 2006
What happened between Joy and Star.
Archive
A collection of 14235 issues
Animals
Seeing animals killed accidentally or for sport, can we help but see images of war and cruelty? An interview with photographer May Mantell and a gallery from her new “Animals” series.
4 April 2006
New York's currently: chock full of broadcasters Feeling "liberated," Tom DeLay announces he'll leave Congress and not seek reelection. By bowing out now, DeLay can apply any leftover campaign cash to his legal bills. Jury decides to permit death penalty for Moussaoui. Today in
3 April 2006
New York's currently: avoiding the 4/5 Fifty killed in Iraq yesterday, including six Americans. With the most rapid growth in spending since FDR, the government now burns 21 cents of every buck earned. Today in the ToB: Never Let Me Go vs. Home Land, judged by Mark
Forced: A Flower Show
Gardeners love to commune with nature. Though not as much as they love to commune with ice cream and plasma screens and loud noises and personality quizzes. Our writer reports from the middle of 33 indoor acres of plants.
31 March 2006
New York's currently: wanting to take this weather, put it on its johnson, and just start spinnin' it around like a goddamn pinwheel... punch it in! Cost of levee rebuilding in New Orleans triples, plans may be downgraded. Earthquakes hit western Iran--Rice offers humanitarian aid, one
Book Digest: March 30, 2006
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001; 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die; The Brothers Bulger; Night of the Jaguar; The Ministry of Pain; Just War; Americans in Paris; Kabul in Winter; Duchess of Nothing; White Apples and the Taste of Stone
30 March 2006
New York's currently: up with rb Kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll has been freed. U.N. Security Council send Iran a strongly worded letter, asks IAEA to report back in a month. Experimental avian flu vaccine is 12 times the size of a standard flu vaccine. No word yet
Let No Man Scare You
An interview with D.C.-based street artist Mark Jenkins about his playful plastics—lollipops, infants, and dogs—plus a gallery of his work.
For March 2006
A new month of what the writers have been watching, reading, eating, drinking, hearing, and enjoying.